[10754] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Settlements,NAP's, Access & Lawsuits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Tue Mar 8 02:16:41 1994
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 17:48:50 -0800 (PST)
Ok, so Ameritech the people who sell phone service in New Zealand and
Ohio are going to run a NAP . Cute. Who sets the access pricing, policy,
and among other things regulates the practice of un-fair & restraint of
trade issues etc.
ABS internet starts up and gets hacked down by Ameritech. Credit reasons
or whatever. ABS went through (as an example: MCS.NET - to get the service).
I can think of many ways that the telephone companies are in an un-fair
position here. Am I mad ? Heck Yes. Like Brock Meeks says: "Jacked in from
the Phone Company Port"----- The telephone companies NEVER did ANYTHING to
support and small and I mean small company in the data business. DEPOSITS
have been required & used as tools to deny access to new markets. Why should
things change now ? If they (the RBOC's) are allowed to run loose in this
market and un-checked, alot of small companies are going to get screwed.
Small companies and alot of private people started the Internet and with
little & no telephone company help.
Please - don't tell me how much telco's are giving to rural projects now
or in the past. Its just another form of lobbying for their future needs.
To allow an RBOC to control an access point in an un-regulated market makes
me glad FIDO net exists !. Time to go back to the bbs systems, slower but
less hassle, until they pass rules or regulate that market. Its already been
tried.
Why not just let the market flow, grow like a weed. Someone always has to
be in control.... I think not. The RBOC's just want to hear the cash go
through the toll-meter. Everytime I see talk about settlements, pricing
etc. I want to throw up. Keep talking about it and it might really happen
or ignore it and it will go away.
$0.02 worth
